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Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... monetary policy accommodation, etc. Nah, it's the BOJ stupid and its aggressive ETF purchases which, according to Reuters, "account for roughly 80% of Japan's ETF market". Reuters reports that the Japanese central bank is considering "scaling ...

CBA opens Amsterdam office, eyes European instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... Amsterdam. CBA has some 180 staff in Europe and the UK. It has an office in London and CommBank Europe is registered in Malta. Reuters reported that the bank is shifting its presence from London to Amsterdam as the UK's exit from the European Union ...

Chief economist update: A vaccine and a better vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... March." "Governors in New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Iowa, Utah and other states have imposed measures..." Since then, Reuters reports that: "Michigan and Washington state... imposed sweeping new restrictions on gatherings, including halting indoor restaurant ...

Chief economist update: Oil could slip on fresh lockdowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... York Governor Cuomo announced the closure of bars, restaurants, gyms at 10pm and limited indoor gatherings to 10 people. Reuters reports that California and several states across the Midwest have tightened restrictions on November 10. Given the persistent ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... minister of Japan has his work cut out for him. The severity of the June quarter contraction is such that, according to Reuters, the BOJ would downgrade its fiscal year 2020/21 growth and inflation projections (from -4.7% and -0.5% forecast in July) ...

Lazard launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... selected from a universe of 900-1000 convertible bonds. The fund seeks to achieve total returns in excess of the Thomson Reuters Global Focus Hedged (AUD) Convertible Bond Index (net interest reinvested) over rolling five-year periods. The fund will ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, have also filed similar lawsuits. Reuters reports that around US$4 billion has been lost from members' savings. Lawyers for ATRS, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & ...

Rapper charged over crypto scandal

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... prohibited from participating in offerings or sales of digital asset securities for at least five years. According to Reuters in Washington, T.I. neither admitted nor denied the SEC's findings. His attorney Henry Mazurek said T.I. regretted getting ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... freedom to turn its attention on re-growing the economy. Not only that, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 5.7% after Reuters recent report quoting the state media mouthpiece, the China Securities Journal saying: "In a world reshaped by coronavirus ...

Chief economist update: Japan on the mend but BOJ, Abe not taking any chances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... after "having rolled out a combined $2.2 trillion in two stimulus packages to avert a deeper recession", according to Reuters, Japan's former economy minister and the head of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) tax panel, Akira Amari, had recently ...